Survivor Synthesis: The Holocaust

Six-Word-Slant

• The Holocaust, the Jews worst nightmare.

140-Character-Claim

• Surviving a holocaust requires its victims to go through a lot of pain and suffering because they desire to live and return home.

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The Cost of Life

If you have no responsibility of life, or no zeal to survive, how will you ever live life with fun, or passion. The cost of life is greater than the effects of death. Some people never find the meaning of life. Then again, who knows the meaning of life? If your life was about to end right where you stand, would you feel accomplished in what you have done with your life. Or if you had the chance to save someone else in exchange for your own life, would you do it, or would you try and save yourself instead?

For example on April 15, 1912 the greatest ship ever built, so to speak, sank in one of the coldest oceans in the world. The Titanic was suppose to be "unsinkable". It was said that "God himself couldn't sink the ship". That is why most people believe that the ship hit that extreme iceberg that cold night. The point is, that night people were frantic trying to save themselves. But why save yourself when you have already lived your life. Wouldn't you want to give someone a chance to live their life, and if you didn't wouldn't you feel very morose for killing someone else. If it were a child you were trying to save? Many people died on that ship the night it sank, but they could have saved many more than what they did, but they chose to be selfish and save themselves; because they thought they were more valuable than a child's life.

My point to you is, is the cost of your life more than some one else's? Or is it the same and you should be the person to die because you have already lived your life and you would like to give them a chance to live? Why be the ferine person and want to let someone else die for you?

Give Life, Or Not

If I was given the power to create life such as Frankenstein did I would choose not to! I honestly think that no man, or women should be able to create life.

In my personal opinion, as the primordial, God is the creator of all living and non-living things. To create life such as Frankenstein did is basically against what God has already done. But if I were to create such a thing, I would do it if I were to be so lonely that I couldn't bear the thought of being alone another day. Then yes I would create life. But the heart of that creature would probably be so brumal that it wouldn't be able to live.

There is no reason to create life other than that. You shouldn't use life as an experiment. That's dealing with emotions, and feelings as well as physical health. It would be different if they were to use a rock and try to bring it to life.

Thoughts Before Reading Frankenstein

Frankenstein, every children's nightmare, was wrote by a girl. If you go out and ask people who you think wrote the story you would think it was actually a guy. I personally never knew that the story was written by a girl, let alone at the age of 19. That's only a few years older than me.

Mary Shelley wrote this story in a time period when girls really didn't get to do anything, or weren't expected to do anything. The world was still in the time period where guys did everything. She had to have a lot of courage to stand up and write a story of that magnitude, and not get criticized. To write a novel at that age, she had to of been a very intelligent person.

Can man create life?

I feel like with the write calculations, and the write information, a man could create another life form. But if it had feelings, and emotions would be very hard to create, because everyone is extremely different in a lot of ways, and to create an original person would be very hard to do.

2012 Theme Word

I choose the word surprise, because I'm getting the opportunity of a lifetime this year. When I was little, I always thought that there was no chance for me to start on the varsity team. But this year all of that is going to change.

Hopefully we can surprise everyone again by winning not only back to back conference championships, but three in a row. That has never been done by a high school team in Batesville. So its a surprise to me, and the team that we can actually do something that no one in Batesville high school history has ever accomplished.

I would love to surprise my family by getting good grades this year. I use to always love to make good grades, but then I sort of fell off and now I must find where I left off and start new and make good grades to make my parents proud. But most of all, I need to surprise myself and get a better relationship with God.

My Antonia

Willa Cather in her novel My Antonia offers her view of life during the pioneer time by telling the story of Jim Burton and his experiences with Antonia and his life. If "My Antonia" was told from Antonia's point of view the story would have been very different. Antonia would have told her opinion a lot more and the reader would have been told what all had happened to her a lot faster than the way it is already written from Jim's point of view. When I read  the book "My Antonia" there are some parts in the novel that I can tell that Cather was using a little more women style of thinking. Jim was a little bit more emotional than what a regular man would be back in the time depicted. I think the reason why Jim made the name of the book My Antonia and not just Antonia is because of the fact that he was so close to Antonia that he wanted to make it known to the reader before they even opened the book. These are some of my ideas that I wanted to share with you about the book, My Antonia.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1: Comment the effect of the setting on the characters within the novel.

The setting has an amazing effect on the characters. Antonia is impacted because of the events happening to her. When she is faced with challenges she has to work hard to overcome them. She has to prove to herself that she is capable of doing anything.



Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
My front yard symbolizes my sanctuary, calling to me, pulling me in, saying, "come on home." There is no other place like home. When you have had a long day, you just come home and its like a sign of relief. Seeing the leaves on the ground, like ripples on top of the water. Its almost like never ending happiness.